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> The important thing is not what merchants want, but what customers want. What many people in Germany want is a payment system that is as anonymous and is as
by aleph_minus_one 8mo ago
> The important thing is not what merchants want, but what customers want.
What many people in Germany want is a payment system that is as anonymous and is as hard to control by some untrusted entitity (both government and banks are very distrusted) as possible and what cash offers. That's basically cash.
Not without reason, in Germany there exists the well-known phrase "Bargeld ist gelebte Freiheit" ("cash is lived freedom").
- carlosjobim 8mo agoAgreed. Customers are benefitted either by paying in cash - for the reasons you described - or by paying with cards, for fraud protection and the ability to make purchases online. Any other payment method will not give customers any benefits over those methods. Unless banks are willing to take responsibility for fraud like with card purchases.
- fsflover 8mo agoWould this work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
- aleph_minus_one 8mo agoI have my doubts: "designed to be anonymous for the payer, but payees are always identified" Why not anonymity for both sides?
- pabs3 8mo agoTaler wants you to pay your income taxes.
- aleph_minus_one 8mo agoBeing willing to pay the income taxes is very different from being willing to be surveilled by tax authorities.
- fsflover 8mo agoYou're not wrong, but it's probably easier to convince a government to adopt GNU Taler than Monero.